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South
Carolina Victim Assistance Network
Board of Directors
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President
Brett Macgargle
Driector, Office of
Delinquency Prevention, SC Dept. of Juvenile
Justice
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Director for the Office of
Community Justice (OCJ), manages the staff and
various activities in the OCJ for the South
Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice. In this
role, he is responsible for developing
prevention and intervention programs to deal
with at-risk youth and ensuring that victims
receive services as mandated by law in the
Department's institutions, residential services,
and community probation and parole
offices.
From 1987 to 1995, Mr.
Macgargle served as State Director of Victim
Services for the South Carolina Department of
Probation, Parole and Pardon Services (SCDPPS)
where he developed, implemented, and
administered one of the nation's first statewide
programs to provide crime victims greater access
to, and participation in, the process of
community corrections. From 1983 to 1987, he
served as a Probation/Parole Officer with
SCDPPS, having come into probation and parole
from a career as a police officer.
Mr. Macgargle has an
associate's and bachelor's degree in Criminal
Justice, and a master's degree in Public
Administration and has served as college
instructor and adjunct faculty in the Criminal
Justice Department of Midlands Technical College
and Benedict College in Columbia, South
Carolina. Brett has contributed numerous
literary publications and is a national
consultant in the field of victim
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Secretary/Treasurer
Ritchie Tidwell
Tidwell & Associates,
Inc.
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.Mr. Ritchie Tidwell
is the owner and president of Tidwell and
Associates, Inc., a consulting firm in Columbia,
South Carolina. He holds a B.S. degree in
Journalism from the University of Florida and an
M.S. degree in Criminology from Florida State
University.
Mr. Tidwell previously
served as Director of the Division of Public
Safety Programs in the S.C. Governor's Office
with responsibility for criminal/juvenile
justice, highway safety and crime prevention
programs.
Mr. Tidwell coordinated
efforts with other state level victim advocates
to create a state level victim advocacy
organization outside of government, which became
the S.C. Victim Assistance Network.
After leaving the
Governor's Office and beginning his consulting
career, Mr. Tidwell has been involved in several
projects which impacted victims of crime,
including:
A five-year
follow-up assessment of the Crime Victims Bill
of Rights in South Carolina. The project
included surveys of policy makers, victim
advocates and crime victims. The report includes
major recommendations for improving services to
crime victims.
An analysis of crime data
by county for spouse abuse and sexual assault,
projected unreported crime, developed a profile
of services and unmet needs, and utilized a
formula for projecting staffing and funding
needs.
Assessment of the status of
crime victim's services in South Carolina,
analyzed caseloads, staffing and funding for
victim services, projected funding needs for the
future, and prepared a master plan for victim
services in the future.
Was co-project director for
an assessment of practices relating to the
handling of child victims in criminal court in
three states and a model protocol developed for
how the court system should handle such cases in
the future.
Was co-investigator for a
project to analyze the potential number of crime
victims in South Carolina who experience
post-traumatic stress syndrome. The report also
projected the number of crime victims entering
the mental health intake system and made
numerous recommendations to improve the
Department of Mental Health response to crime
victims.
Was the lead evaluator for
a project designed to provide services to
current and future child victims of violence in
five Florida counties. |
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Margaret C. Frierson
National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children/SC
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Ms.
Frierson has served over fifteen years as
Executive Director of the South Carolina branch
of the National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children, formerly known as the Adam
Walsh Center. She has worked as a consultant for
the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
providing training to law enforcement,
non-profits, and victim advocates. Ms. Frierson
previously served as the On-Site statewide
coordinator for the Missing and Exploited
Children Comprehensive Action Program (M/CAP) in
South Carolina to enhance the delivery of
services to child victims and their families.
The South Carolina Victim Assistance Standards
and Certification Board has designated Ms.
Frierson as a Certified Victim Assistance
Specialist. She is presently a Board Member of
the South Carolina Victim Assistance Network
where she serves as Chairman of the Children's
Legislative Committee. In addition, Ms. Frierson
has been appointed to represent victim issues as
a Committee Member of the SC Public Safety
Coordinating Council. Also, Ms. Frierson is a
Board Member of Team H.O.P.E., a national parent
support network for families of missing
children. Ms. Frierson holds a Bachelor of
Science Degree from the College of Charleston,
and serves as a member of the Alumni Board. In
1992, the College of Charleston honored
Ms.Frierson naming her "Outstanding Young Alumna
of the Year". |
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Dean Kilpatrick, Ph.D.
Director, National Crime
Victims Research & Treatment Center
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.Dean G. Kilpatrick,
Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychology and
Director of the National Crime Victims Research
and Treatment Center at the Medical University
of South Carolina in Charleston, SC. He is also
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention-funded National Violence Against
Women Prevention Research Center. He has been
involved in the crime victims' rights field
since 1974 when he became a founding member of
People Against Rape, a Charleston-based rape
crisis center. His primary research interests
include measuring the prevalence of rape, other
violent crimes, and other types of potentially
traumatic events as well as assessing the mental
health impact of such events. Dr. Kilpatrick and
his colleagues at the NCVC have conducted three
extramurally funded studies investigating these
topics using national household probability
samples of adults and adolescents. His research
has been funded by a variety of federal agencies
including the National Institute of Mental
Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and
the National Institute of Justice. He has over
100 peer reviewed publications, over 50 book
chapters and monographs, and over 300
presentations at scientific and professional
meetings. Dr. Kilpatrick was a consultant to the
Bureau of Justice Statistics regarding changes
in measurement of sexual assault in the National
Crime Victim Survey. He has provided invited
testimony on the topics of rape and sexual
harassment to committees of the United States
House of Representatives and the United States
Senate. In 1990, President George Bush presented
Dr. Kilpatrick with the President's Award for
Outstanding Service for Victims of Crime, the
nation's highest award in the crime victims'
field. He is the immediate Past-President of the
South Carolina Psychological Association and the
Editor of the Journal of Traumatic Stress (a
scientifically-based, peer-reviewed journal, on
traumatic stress). |
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Riley
Bost
Investigator
Aiken County Sheriff’s
Office |
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Vicki Bourus
Executive Director,
SCCADVASA
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Vicki is currently
serving as the Executive Director of SCCADVASA
(South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault). Vicki is a
licensed, Master's prepared social worker and
has worked extensively with victims of domestic
and sexual assault and child abuse. She has been
involved in providing services to and advocating
for victims of domestic and sexual assault since
1986 and has provided both consultation and
training to law enforcement officers, medical
and legal professionals and social workers in
the identification, assessment and treatment of
victims of both sexual and domestic violence and
other related issues. She served on the Domestic
Violence Task Force of the SC Criminal Justice
Academy in 1987-88 and was nominated for a
"Woman of Achievement" Award from the SC
Commission on Women in
1991. |
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Gwen Herod
Victim Advocate, Sumter
County Sheriff's Dept. |
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Salor Fox
Victim Assistance
Coordinator, Juvenile Parole Board
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Renee
Mattox
US
Attorneys Office
Victim Advocate for
SC |
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Mary Ann Stroup
Victim Advocate, Greenwood
Sheriff's Office
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Susan
Quinn
Esquire |
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Patty
Cavanaugh
Executive AssistantCollins & Lacy,
P.C. |
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Jessica
Freed
Special Events
and Scholarships
USC
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